JamesCooke

Date of Birth03/03/1991

BornCheltenham

BIOGRAPHY

James Cooke became the first British male to win gold at the modern pentathlon World Championships in 25 years in 2018.

The Cheltenham Olympian was sat in third place going into the final 3km cross country event, but he managed to pip Frenchman Valentin Prades to the line by 0.03 seconds in Mexico.

The success was long in the making for the Bath based athlete who established himself as one of the country’s finest modern pentathletes after winning the World Junior Championships in Argentina in 2011.